Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Cricket Match
In a cricket match, Sri Lanka made 235
runs.
India has made 123 runs. How many
more runs does India need to win?
To win India must make 236 runs.
Guess...
To win India needs
(a) more than 100 runs
(b) less than 100 runs
Let's subtract
by first taking away s
from s
Runs to win
Runs by India
Runs needed
2015-16
Try it Yourself
Geeta had Rs 368 in her purse.
She bought a book for Rs 123.
How much money is left in her purse?
Money left in her purse is Rs 368 Rs 123 = ?
Guess...
Money left in Geeta's purse is
(a) more than 200
(b) less than 200
Money in
Geeta's purse
Cost of book
The teacher should discuss with students which number is to be placed above and why.
77
2015-16
Money
Nabeela had
Cost of
Ghee
s from five
So borrow
is
78
2015-16
s.
79
2015-16
Practice Time
1. Baby tortoise is 33 years old. Mummy tortoise is 150 years
old. How much younger is Baby tortoise than Mummy
tortoise?
Age of Mummy tortoise:
Age of Baby tortoise: 33
150
years
years
Teachers should motivate students to decide which operation they have to use to solve a problem.
More such exercises can be given where students decide the appropriate operation.
80
2015-16
She used
units of electricity.
She spent Rs
altogether.
81
2015-16
1 4
3 9
1 2
8 6
1 0
+2 4
5 8
1 3 9
2 3 7
3 2 5
4 7 4
1 1 0
+ 2 1 3
2 0 4
1 3 6
6 4 2
4 9
1 3 5
4 1 3
+2 0
+ 1 4 6
2 3 6
1 2 2
1 1 4
+1 1 4
1 2 2
2 3 6
3 4 0
2 8
3 1 2
3 1 2
+
2 8
3 4 0
82
2015-16
1 4 1
+ 2 4 3
1 4 1
4 6 8
1
2 2 1
3 5
2 4
1 1
4 6 8
+
1 3 9
2
7
3
8
5
2 1
1
7
3 2
3
6
4 4
2 3
2
The teacher should encourage students to discuss and correct the wrong answers. Children love
to correct others' mistakes (for a change!) and also learn from this process.
83
2015-16
481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490
471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480
461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470
451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460
441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450
431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440
Write the correct room numbers on the letters. Then find the
rooms in the above building and circle them.
Make a circle on room 455.
480
9
450
19
Ro om
Ro
8
49 3
2
Room
Ro
om
7
46
2
+2
om
oo
m
Ro
om
1
46
5
+2
2
45 8
+1
426
+38
Room
4
+ 1 29
+2 0
0
430
+20
+13
Room
436
Room
Roo m
467
+1 1
456
20
Room
455
om
oo
445
+10
430
+15
Ro
Ro
6
46 3
3
om
410
+13
+11
R oo m
The teacher should encourage students to solve the problems mentally using the above chart.
84
2015-16
b)
900
800
d)
700
300
, 600,
200
250
400
e)
?
25
35
45
, 250,
85
2015-16
Mental Maths
45 + 35?
45 + 30 + 5?
80
A.
35
45
45
80 30 5
= 50 5
= 45
50
50
B.
75
110
60
C.
50
+
D.
32
120
=
320
86
2015-16
Practice Time
1. Indu's pencil is 15 cm long.
Jyoti's pencil is 8 cm long.
Whose pencil is longer?
How much longer?
2. Ask your Papa or Mummy
Price of 1 kilo salt
Price of 1 kilo sugar
Which one is more costly?
How much more does it cost?
3. Ajay cooked chapatis in 25
minutes. Then he made
daal in 15 minutes. How
much time did he take to
cook both things?
4. Chanchal sells school
sweaters. In 2 days she
sold some red, blue and
grey coloured sweaters.
Red
Blue
Grey
38
66
74
40
23
89
2015-16
(c) How many red and grey sweaters did she sell on the first
day more than 120 or less than 120? Tick ( 3 ) the right
answer.
more than 120
(d) How many sweaters in all did she sell on the second day
more than 140 or less than 140? Tick ( 3 ) the right answer.
more than 140
5. Is Sangeeta right?
Sangeeta went to the
market with her grandpa.
2015-16
Story Problems
Nisha and Sonu were making story problems. Nisha said
13 boys and 14 girls in a class. Sonu, can you make a problem
on it?
Sonu wrote
You can also make story problems with your friends. Look at
each picture and the words next to it. Write your problem
below it.
A. 36 men and 52 women
waiting for their turn
89
2015-16
90
2015-16
Count to Subtract!
Dolma bought 4 dozen (48) bananas and gave one to each of
her friends. 13 bananas were left. How many friends got a
banana?
As you know, this can be found by counting forward from 13. It
is easier to count in jumps of 10. You can also use Kittu's home
shown on page 29 to solve these problems.
48 13
10
10
13
10
23
33
5
43
48
10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 35
So 48 13 = 35
A. 56 37 =
B. 60 45 = ?
10
37
10
47
45
50
5 + 10 =
56 57
10
60
So 60 45 =
10 + 10 1 =
So 56 37 =
70
80
D. 85 63 =
C. 80 59
59
10
90
60
+
E. 84 69 =
10
70
+
80
F. 60 20 =
G. 90 50 =
So 80 59 =
91
2015-16
3
3
3
3
2015-16
One day a visitor with 4 horses came there. It was getting dark
so he wanted to stay there at night. But the horse-keeper was
scared. If the king saw these extra horses he would be very
angry! The visitor said do not worry. The king will never
know. So he arranged the horses like this:
5
2
2
5
At night the king came to count the horses. Along each side he
counted 9 horses. Ah! That's fine he said. Then he happily
went to sleep.
93
2015-16
4
The silly king did not find
any horse missing. Can you
help him?
4
1
zzle
Pu
What numbers are we?
If you add us both you get 100.
94
2015-16